Dave C Boutcher wrote:> Jeff Garzik wrote:>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:>>> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:37 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:>>>> Jeff Garzik wrote:>>>>> In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of >>>>> host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already >>>>> present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device >>>>> infrastructure.>>>> Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel >>>> switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt >>>> disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.>>> but there's a generic one for that: iSCSI>>> so in theory you only need to provide a network driver then ;)>> Talk about lots of overhead :)>>>> OTOH, I bet that T10 is acting at high speed, right this second, to form >> a committee, and multiple sub-committees, to standardize SCSI >> transported over XenBus. SXP anyone? :)> > Actually SRP (which T10 has now stopped working on) fits the bill very> nicely.>

Does the IBM vscsi code/SPEC follow the SRP SPEC or is it slightly modified? We also have a SRP initiator in kernel now too. It is just not in the drivers/scsi dir.-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/